NEW ZEALAND.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1618, 28 April 1879, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[EBP PEKOB AGENCY.] Auckland, April 2S. The Native Crisis. The representative chiefs of the Ngapnhi left for Waikato this morning. They go up with the firm d'tormination either to have Sir G. Grey and Mr Sheehan at the meeting or to return. Wellington, April 28. In the evidence taken at the preliminary enquiry into the wreck of the lluby it was shown that the vessel was carried on to Walter’s Hock during a spring tide, while working through the boat passage. The tide was running about five knots. A s soon as the vessel struck she commenced to fill. There was no chance to save anything. The liabilities of George Thomas, auctioneer, are roughly estimated nt jC 14,000; the assets are expected realise 12s Cd or 15s iu tho poanA.

It is said that Mr Thomas’ losses, through other business men, during tho last two years, have been very ho ivy, ai d that he would have pulled through but tor the present state of commercial depression. Ihe pi ant of the “ ! oss Guardian,’ beh) gi"g to Mr Guide, of the “ kVelliogton Chronicle,” is to be utilised in tho production of a newspaper at Ficldiust.

Three hundred peopled assemble at the cricket ground to see the first game of football played under the Victorian rules, and the general opinion seemed to bo that it was superior to the game played under the Rugby rule* The Overcrowding’ of Coasting 1 Steamers

The captain of the Tairoa was brought up this morning for carrying more passengers than he was allowed by the Act.. Mr 8011, who appeared for the defence, urged that it was impossib e fbr steamers coming round the coast, and arriving at places at midnight, to prevent persons going on board. In this case, especially, they were bringing the mail and hurrying down as fast as possible ; besides, through the company’s having lately lost two steamers, they were more inconvenienced than they otherwise would have been. The Collector of Customs said he had benu authorised by the Government not to press for a heavy fine. Mr Hansford, R H., who is recovered sufficiently to attend to his duties, said that there had been a breach of tho law, but, taking surrounding circumstances into consideration, he would only inflict a fine of 40s for the breach of the Act, and Is for every passenger in excess of the proper number, making in all Jcl 16s, with the,costs of the Court. The information was laid under section lyfi of the Shipping and Seamen’s Act,1877, which permits a fine not exceeding^2o to be inflicted for carrying more passengers than is allowed by certificate, and also a sum not exceeding double the amount of the fares of all passengers in excess of the number authorised by certificate. Masterton, April 28. A new prospecting company has been started here, with an influential provisional directory. Hokitika, April 28. Jansen Christiansen, a Danish seaman, aged twenty-three, who met with a frightful accident on Tuesday on the schooner Prosperity while unloading timber, by a crowbar slipping and going through his thigh, died last night at the Hospital. His leg was amputated yesterday above the knee, but he never rallied after the operation, and died at seven o’clock.